20 Quotes About Fear
Fear is the tax on every meaningful thing. These quotes — from Stoics, warriors, and contemplatives — are about meeting it rather than waiting for it to pass, because it never quite does.
“He whose mind is undisturbed in sorrow, who craves no pleasure, and from whom attachment, fear, and anger have departed — he is called a sage of steady wisdom.”
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. W…”
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
“He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive.”
“Define your fears, instead of your goals. The hard choices — what we most fear doing, asking, saying — are very often what we most need to do.”
“What would you do if you werent afraid?”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
“Courage is grace under pressure.”
“Feel the fear and do it anyway.”
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
“Vulnerability is not weakness. It is our most accurate measure of courage.”
“Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.”
“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically — to say no to other things.”
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
“O God, if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not from me Thine eternal beauty.”
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”